Carl Rahkonen's Kantele Site

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Lecturing on the kantele at the 2007 FinnFest in Ashtabula, Ohio

I began research for a doctoral dissertation on the Finnish kantele in 1982.  On this site I make that dissertation available.  For a more concise and scholarly approach, I refer the reader to my kantele and gusli articles published in the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Carl Rahkonen   Read my thoughts in a 2004 interview with Lani K. Thompson

Table of Contents: The Kantele Traditions of Finland Note: Only the text;  Illustrations will be added later. Quick link to: Kantele History

The Finnish kantele The Estonian kannel Karelian kannel Russian gusli Baltic Psaltery Symposia Baltic Psaltery Bibliography

Some related sites:

Kantele.net
Hannu Saha's kantele article
Kantele builder Gerry Luoma Henkel
Kanteleliitto (Finnish kantele society) in Finnish
Jussi Laasanen (Master kantele and fiddle maker in Finland)
Zhoukov and Maraev kantele site
Russian gusli
Lani K. Thompson's kantelemusic.com site

Note:  This site is still under construction.  More will be coming in the future.

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